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Latest vulture news
Vultures decrease by 99.9%, and counting -- May 2008
Results of a major road transect survey in India reveal the shocking news that numbers of Oriental white-backed vultures have decreased by more than 99.9% in the past 15 years and that this species continues to decline at over 40% each year. The other two threatened species (long-billed and slender-billed vultures) have decreased by close to 97% over the same period. Staff from the BNHS Vulture Programme under the direction of Dr Vibhu Prakash led the survey, which was supported by the UK Government's Darwin Initiative. Full survey results and the final paper are available at this link.
Updates and progress from the BNHS Advocacy Programme -- Mar 2008
The Vulture Advocacy Programme is spearheaded by Nita Shah of the Bombay Natural History Society she is based in Delhi. The programme was initiated in November 2004, with RSPB funding, and has received much of its further funding from the Global Environment Facility (UK Government, directed through British High Commission, Delhi), together with additional RSPB support. Since April 2007, RSPB is taking on full support to this crucially important programme. Follow this link for a full update on the work achieved by this programme.
In-situ conservation in Nepal increases vulture numbers -- Feb 2008
A local scale project led by Bird Conservation Nepal has led to localised increases in numbers of nesting birds around one of Nepal's few remaining breeding colonies. The in-situ conservation work has focused on removing stock of diclofenac from vets and pharmacies and swapping this for the vulture safe drug meloxicam across the whole Nawalparasi district of Nepal where the vulture colony is located, as well as providing drug free feeding resources and vulture education and advocacy to local people in the area. Follow the title link for more information.
Updates from the BNHS Vulture Conservation Breeding Centres--Jan 2008
The involvement of BNHS in the capture and breeding of vultures in India continues to expand and the programme now holds 182 vultures in captivity at three centres in the States of Haryana, West Bengal and Assam. The latest news letter-letter from 2006-07 (Jatayu 5) and information on the Haryana and West Bengal breeding centres are now available on this website (follow title link above), along with photos of the birds at the centres.
Follow this link for news from 2007 and earlier years
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